Dune HD Neo 4K

- New feature: When working with Movies or My Collection functions, on
Movie screen, the new section "Similar" shows the list of
similar/recommended movies. NOTE: To eanble this feature for movies which
are part of My Collection, they should be reindexed (remove indexed data
and then perform indexing again).
- New feature: Fast forward (FF) and fast rewind (REW) are now supported in
Dune HD internal player.
- New feature: IP Control functionality is now partially supported.
Currently, only the possibility to emulate RC button presses is supported
("ir_code" command).
- The protocol is the same as was previously used in Sigma based Dune HD
models: http://dune-hd.com/support/ip_control
- NOTE: When the player is in standby mode, IP Control can not be used
when "Sleep" or "Power off" mode is used (in these modes, CPU and OS
are not running and can not handle IP Control commands), it can only
be used when "Software standby" mode is used. "Software standby" mode
is currently supported only for Pro 4K model and old Sigma based
models; it is currently not supported for Neo 4K, Neo 4K T2, Neo 4K T2
Plus, Sky 4K Plus models. So, for Neo 4K, Neo 4K T2, Neo 4K T2 Plus,
Sky 4K models, IP Control can only be used when the player is not in
standby mode.
- Improvement: When working with Movies or My Collection functions, the
performance of loading movies information improved (especially when using
slow Internet connection).
- Improvement: The UI for choosing time zone in the initial setup wizard is
now more convenient.
- Bugfix: Some ISO files (with 16-bit filenames encoding) were not
recognized and could not be played.
- Bugfix: When working with SMB shares which require user/password, files
on these shares could not be accessed in some cases.
- Bugfix: When connecting via SMB to a host which has multiple IP
addresses, wrong IP address could be used and thus the host could not be
accessed in some cases.
- Bugfix: Wi-Fi connection to a network without a password did not work.
- Bugfix: Adding Android applications to "Favorites" menu did not work
properly in some cases.
- Bugfix: When working with Movies or My Collection functions, when
navigating through the UI, there were various minor bugs in the shown
information in some rare cases.
- Bugfix: When starting a plugin which requires network connectivity, the
system could hang in some rare cases.
- Bugfix: When starting a plugin which uses icon archive functionality, the
system could hang in some rare cases. Also, the performance of icon
archive downloading improved.
- Bugfix: After settings reset, when the initial setup wizard id shown, and
a local storage device with *.dsf or *.dff files is connected, a special
service dialog listing these files could be wrongly shown.
- Improvements for PHP plugins and PHP API:
- New feature: New action "RESTART" is introduced, with parameter
"reboot" (possible values "yes" and "no"), which allows the plugin to
request GUI restart or full reboot.
- New feature: "PLUGIN_OPEN_FOLDER" action is extended with the new
parameter "sel_id", which can be used to preselect the given item in
regular folders (value is media_url of the item to preselect).
- New feature: A possibility to emulate RC button presses (same as in
Sigma based Dune HD models) is now available for PHP plugins.
- New feature: "android_platform" parameter is now available via
"/tmp/run/versions.txt" and "/firmware/config/android_platform.txt".
- Bugfix: Loading images via HTTP URL which redirects to HTTPS URL did
not work in some cases.
- Updated/improved UI translations for some languages.
- Some other minor improvements/fixes.

- New feature: Playback of BD4K images is now supported in Dune HD internal
player (both BDMV and BD ISO are supported).
- New feature: Decoding of DTS audio tracks (stereo downmix) is now
supported in Dune HD internal player.
- New feature: Decoding of DTS HD HRA, DTS HD MA, DTS:X audio tracks
(stereo downmix) is now supported in Dune HD internal player (for MKV,
M2TS, BD images; DTS core is extracted and decoded).
- New feature: Decoding of TrueHD and Atmos audio tracks (stereo downmix)
is now supported in Dune HD internal player (for M2TS and BD images, not
for MKV; DD core is extracted and decoded).
- New feature: DD decoding quality is improved and it now supports Dolby
DRC (Dynamic Range Control). (DRC mode can be adjusted via "Setup /
System" menu.)
- New feature: Remembering and restoring playback position is now supported
in Dune HD internal player (same as on Sigma models). Remembered playback
position is shown in Recent menu.
- New feature: When starting file playback and there is a remembered
playback position, a question is asked to resume playback from the
remembered position or to start from the beginning. The new setting
"Setup / Playback / Preferences / Resume playback" allows to control this
behavior, with the following options: Yes, No, Ask user. The default is
"Ask user".
- New feature: REPEAT and SHUFFLE functions for playlists are now
implemented (same as on Sigma models).
- New feature: Subtitles visualization settings (vertical offset, color,
font) are now remembered (same as on Sigma models).
- New feature: Added setting "Setup / Misc / Encodings / Subtitles
encoding" which allows to specify subtitles encoding (same as on Sigma
models).
- New feature: Sleep timer is now implemented (same as on Sigma models,
works only when working with Dune HD GUI). By default it is disabled. It
can be enabled via the new setting "Setup / Misc / Power manamenent /
Sleep timer".
- New feature: Added support for HFS+ (Mac OS X) partitions on storage
devices with GPT partition table (in addition to previously supported MBR
partition table).
- New feature: Added support for storage devices with hybrid MBR/GPT
partition table.
- New feature: Added support for storage devices formatted without
partition table.
- Improvement: EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 and BTRS partitions on storage devices are
now mounted more correctly (with full read-write permissions).
- Improvement: Storage devices are now mounted more robustly, even if they
were not correctly ejected last time.
- Improvement: NFS browser now searches for NFS servers on all network
interfaces when both Ethernet and Wi-Fi are enabled simultaneously.
- Improvement: Automatic detection of subtitle encoding now works more
correctly.
- Improvement: In initial setup wizard, if the connected TV supports 4K, 4K
resolution is now recommended by default.
- Improvement: In initial setup wizard, the suggested by default timezone
is now automatically detected based on GeoIP (when Internet is
accessible).
- Improvement: When Community source is enabled in Dune Store and there are
a lot of applications to choose, applications are split by categories (as
on Sigma models).
- Improvement: "+" item in "Android applications" menu can now be removed
(hidden) via "Delete" command in POP UP MENU, and then restored via
"Restore hidden applications" command (i.e. same way as for other
built-in applications).
- Improvement: When UI Type 1 is used, "Android applications" section is
now also available.
- Improvement: When UI Type 2 is used, the "Applications" tab now has a
proper title "Applications" (rather than "Dune HD Applications").
- Improvement: The hint about possibility to use "POP UP MENU" RC button is
now shown on other main screens where it was not previously shown, but
the button actually could be used.
- Improvement: When performing "Reset Settings" action, a message is now
shown while the system is handling it.
- Improvement: Kartina.TV application includes now some new minor
improvements.
- Bugfix: In initial setup wizard, when booting w/o HDMI cable connected,
the wizard crashed.
- Bugfix: Playback crash could happen when stopping or finishing playback.
- Bugfix: Starting audio playback immediately after player boot could cause
playback crash.
- Bugfix: Playback could hang when switching TV channels very fast.
- Bugfix: Playback problems or crashes could happen in some cases after
long use of the player or after a lot of switching between TV channels.
- Bugfix: Subtitles could become not working till player reboot in some
cases.
- Bugfix: Playback of TS files and streams could hang in some cases when
teletext subtitles substream is present in the stream.
- Bugfix: Pressing NEXT RC button could cause playback crash.
- Bugfix: Wrong information about the index of the current playlist element
could be shown in INFO panel.
- Bugfix: BD ISO with quotes in filename could not be played.
- Bugfix: Plugin auto-resume and auto-start could not work in some cases
when booting or when exiting standby mode.
- Bugfix: Storage devices could not detected correctly when existing from
standby mode in some cases.
- Improvements for PHP plugins and PHP API:
- New feature: For TV plugins which support TV archive (catchup),
LEFT/RIGHT RC buttons can now be used to switch to archive mode and
seek in the archive even in Live TV mode. For TV plugins which do not
support archive, LEFT/RIGHT RC buttons are now correctly ignored in
Live TV mode.
- New feature: "PLAYBACK_STOP" action now supports the following
additional parameters: "plugin_vod_stop_position",
"plugin_vod_duration", "plugin_vod_start_tm", "plugin_vod_stop_tm",
"plugin_vod_prebuffering_end_tm".
- New feature: Added the possibility to use different fonts for the
information shown in the right panel. The following new commands are
now supported for "%ext%" syntax in
"ViewItemParams::item_detailed_info":
- "%ext%%fN%": use font size N (0..2) for the current text line.
- "%ext%%f+%": increase font size for the current text line.
- "%ext%%f-%": decrease font size for the current text line.
- Improvement: In skins w/o glasses ("disable_glasses" set to "yes"),
such as "Silver" or "Black" skins, a bit more space (30 pixels at the
left and 30 pixels at the right) is now allocated to show useful
information in the right panel.
- Improvement: When loading images from HTTPS, the performance is now
improved.
- Improvement: When PHP plugin uses auto-resume functionality,
"ip_address_required" setting is now enabled by default for this
plugin.
- Improvement: folder ".platform.android" can now be used to store
Android-specific versions of platform-dependent plugin files (such has
native executables) in the plugin (similar to ".platform.87xx" folder
that can be used for SMP87xx-specific files).
- Bugfix: "/tmp/run/ext_command.state" was not implemented; now it
contains the information about current playback state (same as on
Sigma models).
- Bugfix: Playback timer did not work.
- Bugfix: Saving/restoring playback position during auto-resume and
setting initial playback position using
PluginVodInfo::initial_position_ms did not work properly.
- Bugfix: In "PLAYBACK_STOP" action, in rare cases,
"plugin_vod_series_ndx" and "plugin_tv_channel_id" parameters could
contain wrong information.
- Bugfix: When switching to playlist item N, the next item (N+1) was
actually wrongly used.
- Bugfix: In TV OSD, crash could occur in some specific cases when
trying to scroll through the list of TV channels.
- Other minor improvements/fixes.

The first version that was recommended for Neo 4K, Neo 4K T2, Neo 4K T2
models.
This version adds Dune HD internal player, Google Play services, DD
decoding, built-in shortcuts to popular Android applications, integration
of SPMC application as DVD playback engine (and as optional file playback
engine) with automatic installation and configuration, and many other
improvements and fixes.

Version "171205_1023_r12"

Download:
N/A (has not been released, or is not recommended, for this player model)